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Dec 27, 2024 | 
internationalviewpoint.org | Thomas Rid
No one expected the regime to fall in this way, so quickly. This proves that it was rotten to the core and that it could no longer stand on anything. Only on the fear it could still produce in those who were supposed to be protecting the state, and by the grace of its allies. When the HTS (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) offensive took place, Hezbollah, which had fought alongside the Syrian army against ISIS, and Russia, which had saved the regime on many occasions, were no longer there.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
lanticapitaliste.org | Thomas Rid
Actualité Syrie : un cauchemar se termine, vers quel espoir ? Bachar al-Assad est tombé. Personne ne le regrettera. En vingt ans de dictature et dix ans de guerre civile, lui et sa clique auront réussi à transformer la Syrie en une dystopie infernale.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Thomas Rid |Jen Patja
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In early September, the U.S. Justice Department released a trove of information about the Russian influence campaign known as “Doppelganger”—a Kremlin-backed effort that created faux versions of familiar news websites and seeding them with fake material. Just a few weeks later, the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that it had received a tranche of hacked materials from inside the Doppelganger operation.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
bsg.ox.ac.uk | Thomas Rid
Blavatnik Election Briefing: United States votes Blavatnik School of Government and online This event is free - please register below to attend With US elections less than a month away, and global security at stake, it has never been more vital to secure elections than in the present moment.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Thomas Rid
In early September, the infamous Russian disinformation project known as Doppelganger hit the news again. Doppelganger—a scheme to disseminate fake articles, videos, and polls about polarizing political and cultural issues in the United States, as well as in France, Germany, and Ukraine—was first exposed in 2022 and widely covered in the Western press.
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May 3, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Gavin Wilde |Lee Foster |Olga Belogolova |Thomas Rid
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base”, Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the news platform Puck in March. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House Speaker, made a related claim earlier this year when commenting on protesters who were demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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May 3, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Olga Belogolova |Lee Foster |Thomas Rid |Gavin Wilde
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the news platform Puck in March. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House Speaker, made a related claim earlier this year when commenting on protesters who were demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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May 3, 2024 | 
archive.ph | Olga Belogolova |Lee Foster |Thomas Rid |Gavin Wilde
“Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” Representative Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the news platform Puck in March. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House Speaker, made a related claim earlier this year when commenting on protesters who were demanding a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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May 1, 2024 | 
internationalviewpoint.org | Thomas Rid
As the shadow of war spreads, our governments are preparing for it and intend to throw us into it with all their might. And behind them, the Bolloré, Dassaut, Peugeot and other gun merchants are licking their lips, calculating their next profits. Capitalism, colonialism, authoritarianism and warGlobalized capitalism under the domination of the United States and its allies has entered a multidimensional crisis of inextricable contradictions.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Thomas Rid
On Saturday night, we had dinner with Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, an encrypted messaging app for instant messaging, voice, and video calls. We ordered pasta in a Munich restaurant, about a mile away from where Hitler had announced the reestablishment of the Nazi Party almost exactly a century ago. We discussed how fragile open societies looked. Then we spoke about encryption, phone numbers, and a terrifying Stasi prison.
